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6 unusual facts about Belvoir


Dolly Rockit Rollers

Their name is a pun on the Leicestershire town of Belvoir (pronounced “beaver”).

Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros

Under Henry VII, who united the houses of York and Lancaster, the attainder was reversed; and Edmund, Lord Ros, was reinstated in his ancestral property; Belvoir had been in the possession of the Hastings family for more than twenty years.

Horninghold

In about 1076 he gave the parish to the priory of Belvoir where it remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th Century.

Ralph Myers

Ralph Myers (born 20 March 1979) is an Australian theatre set-designer and director, and the Artistic Director of Sydney's Belvoir.

Thomas Clay

Thomas Clay joined Leicester Fosse in April 1911 and made his first appearance for the team against Bradford Park Avenue F.C. on November 11 that year, having previously made a name for himself for local side Belvoir Sunday School Juniors.

Woolsthorpe

Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, a village in Lincolnshire, England near the border with Leicestershire and close to Belvoir Castle


Belvoir Castle

The Duke and Duchess of Rutland also own but do not manage The Manners Arms in Knipton, a country hotel and restaurant on the Belvoir estate.

Belvoir Gardens

Belvoir Gardens was designed and landscaped by Elizabeth Howard, 5th Duchess of Rutland, who was married to John Manners, the 5th Duke of Rutland.

Belvoir Park Hospital

Belvoir Park Hospital was a cancer treatment specialist hospital situated in Newtownbreda, South Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Belvoir Park held Northern Ireland's only radiotherapy unit, until the opening of a new cancer treatment centre in Belfast City Hospital.

Box the Pony

It has played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican in London.

Charles S. Fairfax

The 7th Baron, Robert Fairfax, died without issue in 1793 and the title descended to an American second cousin, the Rev. Bryan Fairfax (1736–1802), was a priest of the Episcopal Church and rector of parish in Alexandria, who was the son of William Fairfax(1691–1757) of Belvoir and Deborah Clarke (1707–1747).

Eloise Mignon

In 2011 Mignon played the role of Hedvig in Belvoir's production of the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck opposite Toby Schmitz and Anita Hegh.

Hauenštejn

Ferdinand Buquoy continued the reconstruction under the influence of historism, taking its examples from England (Windsor, Arundel, Belvoir, Lancaster or Oxford) and Bavaria (Hohenswangau, Lahneck).

Keating!

Also in 2006, renowned director Neil Armfield offered to direct a production of Keating! at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre with Company B.

Lansdowne, Lexington

Its boundaries are Tates Creek Road to the east, New Circle Road to the south, and its western border is a combination of Belvoir Dr / Malabu Dr, Larkin Rd, Heather Way, and Melbourne Way.

Meaghan Davies

Meaghan's main body of work to date has been on the stage, performing for Belvoir in five productions, for Queensland Theatre Company, and as the lead role of Lucy in Nadia Tass' musical production of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe".

Monica Maughan

In 1999 she created the role of Suzanne Beckett in Justin Fleming's Burnt Piano at Belvoir Company B, and demonstrated a command of classical piano played live in each performance.

Nottingham Blitz

A Starfish decoy fire system located near Cropwell Butler in the Vale of Belvoir confused the aircraft, and many of the bombs intended for Nottingham were dropped on open farmland in the vale.

Vale of Belvoir

In recent years the Belvoir name has become more widely known through the national and international sale of various cordials and other produce, a scheme introduced by the present duke's father to raise funds for the continued upkeep of the castle, and to provide employment in an otherwise farm-dominated local economy.

Wesley Enoch

Wesley has been Artistic Director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, an Associate Artist with the Queensland Theatre Company, Resident Director with the Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-Operative and Associate Artistic Director Company B Belvoir St.


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